VMware Cloud Foundry Core Ups Application Portability

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VMware (NYSE: VMW) and the Cloud Foundry Community have kicked off Cloud Foundry Core, a program aimed to ease cloud portability by providing a common capabilities baseline and an open mechanism to validate application portability. AppFog, Tier 3, Uhuru Software, Micro Cloud Foundry and CloudFoundry.com are now Core-compatible, according to a Cloud Foundry blog post.
Cloud portability refers to the ability to move applications and data from one cloud provider to another, including between public and private clouds. It’s important because the ability to respond to changing IT needs may be co
(IT news)

VMware announced general availability of VMware vSphere 5.5 and VMware vCloud Suite at VMworld today. The new version of its virtualization technology includes the integration of Cloud Foundry, the platform-as-a-service that is now part of Pivotal, which spun out from VMware parent company EMC.
Cloud Foundry used to be VMware’s crown jewel.

VMware CEO Paul Maritz apparently will no longer lead the virtualization company. Maritz’s potential destination: Perhaps the CEO slot at Cloud Foundry, which VMware (NYSE: VMW) may spin off as its own platform as a service (PaaS) cloud company.